Isaiah 42:23
21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
- KJV
- Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
- WEB
- Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
- ASV
- Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
- DARBY
- Who among you will give ear to this, [who] will hearken and hear what is to come?
- BLB
- Who among you⁺ will give ear to this? [Who] will listen and obey hereafter?
- ÅB
- Hvem blant dere vil heretter vende øret til dette, gi akt og høre på det?
- OTB
- Hvem blant dere vil høre dette? Hvem vil være oppmerksom og lytte for framtiden?
- B1930
- Hvem blandt eder vil herefter vende øret til dette, gi akt og høre på det?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 3:22–23
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Read in contextIsaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Read in contextLeviticus 26:40–42
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Read in contextMatthew 21:28–31
But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:29–31
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:4–7
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Read in contextJeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
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